Best practices for detecting offline state in a service worker

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navigator.onLine and the related events can be useful when you want to update your UI to indicate that you’re offline and, for instance, only show content that exists in a cache.

But I’d avoid writing service worker logic that relies on checking navigator.onLine. Instead, attempt to make a fetch() unconditionally, and if it fails, provide a backup response. This will ensure that your web app behaves as expected regardless of whether the fetch() fails due to being offline, due to lie-fi, or due to your web server experiencing issues.

// Other fetch handler code...

if (event.request.mode === 'navigate') {
  return event.respondWith(
    fetch(event.request).catch(() => caches.match(OFFLINE_URL))
  );
}

// Other fetch handler code...

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